Armed Groups (eBook)

The Twenty-First-Century Threat

Peter G. Thompson (Autor)

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2023 | 2., Second Edition
292 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5381-6865-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Armed Groups is the most comprehensive text to provide a framework for categorizing the key actors that pose a threat to today's security arenaterrorists, mercenaries, insurgents, militias, and transnational criminal organizationsand analyzing their characteristics to provide a thorough overview. Drawing on case studies, histories, and a rich, yet underexplored theoretical literature, this study presents students with the tools to methodically examine these often overlooked, but key drivers of violence in the international system. Additionally, globalization, the privatization of force, and the return of great power competition have altered the security landscape and enhanced armed group threats. These forces have also led to an increasing overlap between conflict and crime, and a growth in the state use of armed group proxies. Coming to terms with armed groupstheir objectives, strategies, internal composition, and the environment that fosters themremains a critical task for practitioners, scholars, and policy makers alike in understanding the changing nature of war.This second edition, updated throughout, includes new material on the importance of private military companies, the shift to sub-Saharan Africa as an important center of conflict, the return of great power politics, the increased use of social media and advanced technology, and the increasingly criminalized nature of armed groups.,

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.8.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: armed conflict • armed groups • arms control • Civil Wars • counterterrorism • criminal organizations • Ethnic conflicts • Global Governance • guerrilla warfare • Humanitarian interventions • Insurgency • international system • intrastate wars • Irregular warfare • low-intensity conflicts • Mercenaries • Middle East • Military power • militia • new security actors • Non-State Actors • Political violence • Post-Westphalian System • Private Military • security policy • security strategies • security studies • Small Wars • South Asia • terrorism • terror nexus • Transnational security • Warlords
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-6865-0 / 1538168650
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-6865-3 / 9781538168653